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The AZ Labs Network is extre­mely happy to announ­ce Fabri­Cul­tu­re’s first event: Fabri­Camp Lx1! That’s right, it’ll be a bar­camp sty­le uncon­fe­ren­ce dedi­ca­ted to digi­tal fabri­ca­ti­on. Seve­ral mem­bers and fri­ends of AZ’s hac­kers­pa­ces (LCD, altLab and xDA) will be demoing their 3D prin­ters and CNC mills. If you have any kind of digi­tal fabricator—finished, unfi­nished, bro­ken or so and so—bring it along. Or just bring your­self, your fri­ends, your family (this is a chil­dren-fri­en­dly event). As in any other bar­camp-sty­le event, the atten­de­es are also the spe­a­kers, so everyo­ne is encou­ra­ged to give talks, start deba­tes, demo their pro­jects, lead workshops, wha­te­ver suits their fancy.

This Tues­day Altlabs ope­ned it’s new ama­zing hac­king spa­ce. Now within an old pla­nes sup­pling fac­tory that was recon­ver­ted into the Flying Hou­se Lis­boa a pla­ce that gathers music and urban artists.

This new pla­ce gives AltLab a gre­at new infras­truc­tu­re and loca­ti­on fil­led with pos­si­bi­li­ti­es. Sin­ce it’s a hea­vily indus­tri­a­li­zed area we can only won­der what new resour­ces and con­tacts we will gather to con­ti­nue impro­ving AltLab as a Hac­ker­sap­ce.

The Flying Hou­se Lis­boa inclu­des a loun­ge area with a café and small home res­tau­rant on the second flo­or open to everyo­ne on the buil­ding and to AltLab’s mem­bers of cour­se and a asto­nishing view over Lisbon’s air­port.

Right on our first wee­kly mee­ting the­re we kic­ked off with a soft cir­cuits workshop by Cata­ri­na, no one would be bet­ter to debut our new spa­ce that one of our dear foun­ding mem­bers.

We even got time to finish assem­bling the Makerbot’s new rota­ting plat­form and extru­der that we hope to have them ready to print as soon as pos­si­ble.

As usu­al our door is wide open to everyo­ne and we wel­co­me all tho­se lur­king cre­a­ti­ve minds to bring gre­at new ide­as and pro­jects to AltLab!

[PT]Para mui­tos, foi o pri­mei­ro con­tac­to com o Ardui­no, a des­co­ber­ta da sim­pli­ci­da­de des­ta pla­ta­for­ma para o desen­vol­vi­men­to de pro­jec­tos de com­pu­ta­ção físi­ca.
Dis­tri­buí­dos por qua­tro ban­ca­das, os par­ti­ci­pan­tes come­ça­ram a expe­ri­men­tar assim que che­ga­ram![EN]For many this was their first con­tact with the Ardui­no, dis­co­ve­ring the ease with whi­ch this plat­form can be used for the deve­lop­ment of phy­si­cal com­pu­ting pro­jects.
Assem­bled around work­ben­ches, par­ti­ci­pants star­ted expe­ri­men­ting as soon as they arri­ved!

[PT]Uma das ban­ca­das, dedi­ca­da ao tema Ardui­no, moto­res e a robó­ti­ca, ficou por con­ta do Gui­lher­me Mar­tins (Gui­bot). Nou­tra ban­ca­da, alguns prin­ci­pi­an­tes apren­di­am a dar os pri­mei­ros pas­sos, com a aju­da de mem­bros do altlab.[EN]One of the tables, dedi­ca­ted to Ardui­no, motors and robo­tics, was run by Gui­lher­me Mar­tins (Gui­bot). Near by, at another table, some par­ti­ci­pants took their first steps with the help of altlab mem­bers.

[PT]O Pedro Ânge­lo, do LCDLab, veio do Por­to para nos aju­dar e res­sus­ci­tou um pro­jec­to anti­go do Mau­rí­cio, que depois de pron­to gerou algu­ma diver­são…[EN]O Pedro Ânge­lo, from LCDLab, came from Por­to to help out and deci­ded to bring back to life an old pro­ject of Maurício’s whi­ch imme­di­a­tely tur­ned into a lot of fun.…

Leo­nar­do has been wor­king on a laser-head RepRap for some time. His latest expe­ri­ment was etching a PCB with it. Abo­ve is the video of the first tests, but go on over to his blog to check out all the details.